Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille, sentence 9

“Two lines!” cried the Mock Turtle.

Who acts: Two lines · What happens: cry · To what, where: Mock Turtle

This is a sentence of «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Chapter X. The Lobster Quadrille. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two lines), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
2	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lines	nummod
3	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 lines	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lines	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Turtle	det
8	Mock	Mock	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Turtle	compound
9	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Two lines	the Mock Turtle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Topic

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Alice's Adventures in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll, Project Gutenberg book 11 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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